Comment 18 for bug 248558

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In , Thomas (thomas-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #9)
> The problem with grabbing site.py from the python package is that it is vastly
> different than the site.py zipped and base encoded in virtualenv.

Most of the differences come from the fact though that virtualenv's site.py is from python 2.3. The differences can be seen using (zsh syntax):

diff -u /usr/lib64/python2.5/site.py <(python -c 'import virtualenv; print virtualenv.SITE_PY')